WASSILY KANDINSKY Focusing on the Abstract Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky was born in 1866 to a wealthy family of merchants Kandinsky was one of the first painters to complete a truly abstract painting ID: 762667
Download Presentation The PPT/PDF document "WASSILY KANDINSKY Focusing on the Abstra..." is the property of its rightful owner. Permission is granted to download and print the materials on this web site for personal, non-commercial use only, and to display it on your personal computer provided you do not modify the materials and that you retain all copyright notices contained in the materials. By downloading content from our website, you accept the terms of this agreement.
WASSILY KANDINSKY Focusing on the Abstract
Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky was born in 1866 to a wealthy family of merchants. Kandinsky was one of the first painters to complete a truly abstract painting. Kandinsky was greatly influenced by impressionist painters such as Monet and Wagner
Early Life Kandinsky began his professional career as a successful lawyer. He was even received an offer to become a professor at the University of Dorpat. Kandinsky did not start studying painting and drawing until he was 30 years old.
Early Life Kandinsky moved to Germany to study Art in 1896 and eventually studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. Kandinsky also taught at the Bauhaus, a famous design school in Germany until the Nazi’s closed it down in 1933
Early Work Like many artists Kandinsky progressed slowly into abstractionism. His early work was still somewhat representational before moving into the purely abstract.
True Abstraction After a time his work took a drastic turn
His Work Kandinsky focused on form and color analysis. His compositions, while non representational, are very active and create a great deal of movement.
Unifying Theme In all of Kandinsky’s Abstract work there are the common themes of divided space and vibrant color. Your assignment, is to create a non-representational abstract composition o n an 11x14 piece of paper and uses diagonal lines, overlapping shapes, intersecting shapes no more than 5 different color s , and optional checker board pattern.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-UupN7wHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-H42hoR0-s
P lan out your design in your sketchbook Your design should include a variety of : lines (curved, diagonal, straight, intersecting) Shapes (overlapping, intersecting or by themselves) Checkerboard patterns are optional Choose bright colors and use no more than 5 See your teacher for final approval of sketch and to get watercolor paper. Use stencils and rulers to create as much of your design as possible